Dr. Krittika Uniyal, is a Swiss Excellence Fellow, completed her Ph.D in Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Environmental Governance and Territorial Development, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research interests encompass sustainability, critical infrastructure, development imaginaries, aviation geopolitics, and foreign direct investments. Her doctoral research delves into the techno-politics of commercial aviation infrastructure in the mid-Himalayan region. She places a strong emphasis on interpreting large-scale interventions like airports as multifaceted sociotechnical accomplishments, combining elements of discourse, materiality, temporality, spatiality, and power dynamics, through the lens of techno-politics. Krittika's research has received the Swiss Network for International Studies Research Award for young scholars and has been funded by the Ernst et Lucie Schmidheiny Foundation. She is currently a Ph.D visiting fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society of The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.Before her current role, Krittika served as a research assistant at the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development in Nepal, where her work revolved around investigating the cross-border historical trade routes of the Bhotiya community across the trans-Himalayan region. She earned her Master's degree in Politics with a specialization in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.